Method of hierarchical caching of configuration data having...

Details Method of hierarchical caching of configuration data having... Method of hierarchical caching of configuration data having...

2006-01-24

2006-01-24

Elmore, Stephen C. (Department: 2186)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

C711S125000, C711S141000, C711S145000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06990555

ABSTRACT:
A method of caching commands in microprocessors having a plurality of arithmetic units and in modules having a two- or multidimensional cell arrangement is provided. The method includes combining a plurality of cells and arithmetic units to form a plurality of groups, assigning a cache unit to a group, and connecting the cache unit to a higher level unit via a tree structure. The cache unit may send requests for required commands to the higher level cache unit, which may return a command sequence including the required command, if the higher level cache unit holds the first command sequence including the required command in the higher level cache unit's local memory.

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